Hate Crime
(FBI) – A criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender or […]
Hermaphrodite
An out-of-date and offensive term for an inter sexed person. Green, E. R., & Peterson, E. N. [LGBT Resource Center at UC Riverside]. (2006). LGBTQI terminology (PDF). Retrieved from http://www.lgbt.ucla.edu/documents/LGBTTerminology.pdf.
Heteronormativity
The societal assumption and norm that all people are heterosexual. The basic civil rights and social privileges that a heterosexual person automatically receives that are systematically denied to gay, lesbian […]
Heterosexism
The belief or assumption that everyone is, or should be heterosexual; the idea that being heterosexual is normal, natural and healthy, and all other people are somehow unnatural, abnormal and […]
Hidden Bias
The ability to distinguish friend from foe helped early humans survive, and the ability to quickly and automatically categorize people is a fundamental quality of the human mind. Categories give […]
Homophobia
The fear of homosexuality and homosexual people and of all things associated with homosexuality. University of Alaska-Southeast. (n.d.). LGBTIQ terminology and definitions (PDF). Retrieved from http://www.uas.alaska.edu/juneau/activities/safezone/docs/lgbtiq_terminology.pdf. (internalized) – When a […]
Homosexual
A male whose sexual orientation is toward other men or a female whose sexual orientation is toward females. Homosexual males typically prefer the term gay, and homosexual females typically prefer […]
